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...latest in a string of audacious terrorist attacks, India's capital was thrown into chaos on Saturday evening as five serial blasts left at least 18 people dead and 100 injured. The central business district of Connaught Place and busy markets in Karol Bagh and Greater Kailash-I were targeted between 6 and 7 p.m. and three more bombs were defused in Connaught Place. As of Saturday evening, one arrest had been reported...
...Caribbean FIERCE WEATHER Four storms in as many weeks have battered the Caribbean, spurring repeated mass evacuations and a climbing death toll. In Haiti, where areas of most of the nation's provinces are underwater, the storms have left an estimated 1,000 people dead and millions without food, water and shelter. In Cuba few deaths have been reported, but 2.6 million people--a quarter of the nation's population--sought refuge from Ike. Cuba's government has predicted damage in the billions of dollars...
...been turning down movie roles ever since the second episode of The Office. He had no interest in starring in a film he didn't have complete creative control over. His new movie, Ghost Town--a small, hilarious romantic comedy about a dyspeptic dentist besieged by the dead to help them complete their unfinished business--opens Sept. 19 and marks the first time Gervais has taken a major role in a movie he didn't write and direct. "I was being a baby. I didn't like being away from home. I don't like not being in charge...
...This is why I came out here: It is a forgotten place. Forgotten, at least, by the tourists and academics of the stylish sort, whose Adirondack lodges and Urban Institutes largely bypass the dead ends of this nation. It is in forgotten places, however, where there is the most to be remembered. In one conversation, I learned about how Harry Truman was the only good president the country ever had. In another, I learned that the Earth is 6,000 years old. In still another, I learned about the best way to can apple butter...
...crime spree prompted a similar lockdown in Hartford, Conn. After a chain of shootings that left one 21-year-old dead, a 15-month-old shot in the left leg and six young people wounded, the city in August imposed a 30-day emergency curfew on everyone under the age of 18. Mayor Eddie Perez said in a statement: "We must do this because we cannot and will not tolerate innocent people, especially children, to be victims...